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The later version has somewhat different sounding tracks of different lengths that have electronic instruments on them as well. That is William Onyeabor on the sax by the way, we have no idea what else he played. Some of these songs you have heard before on our compilation and some will be new to you. 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On set-opener \"Body and Soul,\" Onyeabor co-opts tranced-out, Nigerian juju music, saturates it in slow Afro-funk, and weds it all to P-Funk's call-and-response lyric and chorus; after ten minutes, the effect is consciousness altering. \"Atomic Bomb\" is pure African disco with peeling, phased synths, fat basslines, drum loops, and strident, chunky guitars punctuated by Rhodes pianos; they create a spaced-out backdrop of nearly dubwise effects in this leisurely, insistently pulsing groover. The singing (a female chorus with Onyeabor adding his own gentle stream of consciousness musings) pushes it all to the margin. \"Why Go to War,\" composed and recorded a decade after the Biafran\/Nigerian civil war, bridges Onyeabor's brand of Afro-Funk to Fela Kuti's -- especially in the vocal chants and the militancy of its groove. \"Love Is Blind,\" with its tight, repetitive guitar vamp, rolling Space Invaders-style drum machines, echoes, and the jagged weave of chorded and single-line zig-zagging synth runs, fuses the boundaries separating soul, disco, and new wave. None of the previous tunes prepare the listener for the futurist, electro rhythm and analog synth crush that is \"Let's Fall in Love,\" from 1983's Good Name -- perhaps the set's finest track. Over seven minutes, its layered, beaming, stratospheric, proto-techno synths pulse and stab as a high-register soprano sax careens over the frantic tension. 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